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The old "Download more RAM" meme is feeling less funny and more prophetic these days
by bizzleDawg 3y ago
The old "Download more RAM" meme is feeling less funny and more prophetic these days
- skinkestek 3y agoRAM Doubler or something like that was an actual working thing back in the days, that worked by (IIRC) transparently zipping/unzipped data on its way to/from memory. But yes, I agree.
- toast0 3y agoOn the other hand, SoftRam 95 took the driver kit paging driver and claimed to compress data, but actually didn't. All you got was a small buffer in memory where pages would be paged to before they actually got paged to disk. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=105897 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...